The indie label I have chosen is Domino Recording Company.
Thursday, 19 January 2012
My chosen record Labels.
The major record label I have chosen is Sony/BMG.
The indie label I have chosen is Domino Recording Company.
The indie label I have chosen is Domino Recording Company.
Key terms III
Web 2.0 - The second phase of the internet, the focus has changed from recieving information to people creating and sharing material.
Download - The practice of selecting and recieving digital information from an online source on a computer, as opposed to sending it by upload.
Peer to peer - The sharing of media material between between two parties in an equal relationship.
Piracy - Distribution of media material that infringes copyright law.
Audience - This refers to the way in which people engage with the media. The new digital media: convergence, user-created content and social networking have transformed the audience from a traditional 'mass' into a 'fragmented' definition.
Distribution - Promoting music and getting it into shops, on the radio and downloaded for payment.
Consumption - People buying C.D's, downloading music, paying for live concert tickets and purchasing related topics.
Download - The practice of selecting and recieving digital information from an online source on a computer, as opposed to sending it by upload.
Peer to peer - The sharing of media material between between two parties in an equal relationship.
Piracy - Distribution of media material that infringes copyright law.
Audience - This refers to the way in which people engage with the media. The new digital media: convergence, user-created content and social networking have transformed the audience from a traditional 'mass' into a 'fragmented' definition.
Distribution - Promoting music and getting it into shops, on the radio and downloaded for payment.
Consumption - People buying C.D's, downloading music, paying for live concert tickets and purchasing related topics.
Monday, 16 January 2012
Key terms II
Major Record Label - The music industry (or music business) sells compositions, recordings and performances of music. Among the many individuals and organizations that operate within the industry are the musicians who compose and perform the music; the companies and professionals who create and sell recorded music.
Subsidiary Label - A company controlled by a holding company.
Independent Label - An independent record label (or indie record label) is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels. Indie record labels are where a great number of bands and musical acts get a start, and where many find their success.
Niche Audiences - (Niche audience) A niche market is the subset of the market on which a specific product is focusing; therefore the market niche defines the specific product features aimed at satisfying specific market needs, as well as the price range, production quality and the demographics that is intended to.
Mainstream audience - People, activities, or ideas that are part of the mainstream are regarded as the most typical, normal, and conventional because they belong to the same group or system as most others of their kind.
Subsidiary Label - A company controlled by a holding company.
Independent Label - An independent record label (or indie record label) is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels. Indie record labels are where a great number of bands and musical acts get a start, and where many find their success.
Niche Audiences - (Niche audience) A niche market is the subset of the market on which a specific product is focusing; therefore the market niche defines the specific product features aimed at satisfying specific market needs, as well as the price range, production quality and the demographics that is intended to.
Mainstream audience - People, activities, or ideas that are part of the mainstream are regarded as the most typical, normal, and conventional because they belong to the same group or system as most others of their kind.
Thursday, 12 January 2012
Key Terms
Convergence of technology - Hardware and software coming together across media, and companies coming together across similar boundaries, to make the distinction between different types of media and different media industries increasingly doubtful. An example of this is a mobile phone as it has a phone, the internet, e-mail, music and video.
Convergence of Industrial Activity -
Synergy - Interconnected marketing and distribution of media products across a range of platforms and sectors.
Conglomerate - A number of different things or parts that are put or grouped together to form a whole but remain distinct entities.
Globalisation - The shift in media distribution from local or national to international and the whole world at once. Culturally, describes the process of 'sameness' over the world, typified by the availability of McDonalds in most nations.
Analogue Music - An audio signal is an electrical representation of, i.e., is analogous to, a sound waveform. The signal's voltage fluctuates in the same pattern as the speaker cone that reproduces it. Analog synths use oscillators, filters, amplifiers and other electrical components to create electrical signals analogous to the audio wave forms they are trying to represent.
Digitalisation - conversion of analog information into digital information. E.g. records onto Ipods and Mp3's.
Vertical Integration - when a media company profits from all aspects of production, distribution and consumption/exhibition.
Horizontal Integration - absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in the same level of production and sharing resources at that level.
Convergence of Industrial Activity -
Synergy - Interconnected marketing and distribution of media products across a range of platforms and sectors.
Conglomerate - A number of different things or parts that are put or grouped together to form a whole but remain distinct entities.
Globalisation - The shift in media distribution from local or national to international and the whole world at once. Culturally, describes the process of 'sameness' over the world, typified by the availability of McDonalds in most nations.
Analogue Music - An audio signal is an electrical representation of, i.e., is analogous to, a sound waveform. The signal's voltage fluctuates in the same pattern as the speaker cone that reproduces it. Analog synths use oscillators, filters, amplifiers and other electrical components to create electrical signals analogous to the audio wave forms they are trying to represent.
Digitalisation - conversion of analog information into digital information. E.g. records onto Ipods and Mp3's.
Vertical Integration - when a media company profits from all aspects of production, distribution and consumption/exhibition.
Horizontal Integration - absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in the same level of production and sharing resources at that level.
The Brief
In this task I will be producing a case study on the Music Industry concerning the comparison between an independent label and a major label. This case study needs to be up to date with the industry at this time and also needs to be presented with a ten minute presentation summary of my findings on the industry as it is.
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